Comment on “Localized vortices with a semi-integer charge in nonlinear dynamical lattices”

In a recent paper by Kevrekidis, Malomed, Bishop, and Frantzeskakis [Phys. Rev. E 65, 016605 (2001)] the existence of localized vortices with semi-integer topological charge as exact stationary solutions in a two-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schrödinger model is claimed, as well as the existence of an analog solution in the one-dimensional model. We point out that the existence of such exact stationary solutions would violate fundamental conservation laws, and therefore these claims are erroneous and appear as a consequence of inaccurate numerics. We illustrate the origin of these errors by performing similar numerical calculations using more accurate numerics.